As more youth, especially girls, participate in organized sports, doctors are seeing increasing numbers of ACL tears, particularly in the high school sports of soccer, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics.

Dr. George Pappas, an orthopedic surgeon at South Carolina Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center in North Charleston, was the surgeon who performed Manning’s surgery and suspects the increase in ACL injuries is “likely due to a combination of increased participation in high-demand sports at an earlier age as well as improved diagnosis of ACL injuries, including the more common use of MRI scans to identify tears.” click here for complete story and photos